On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Andrew Dalke <da...@dalkescientific.com> wrote: > On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:46 AM, David Cournapeau wrote: >> If you think this is insane, you are not alone :) > > I think that by hooking into "data_files" I can be a bit less insane. What's > wrong with this?
The problem of data_files is that its semantics are heavily changed between the different tools (distutils, setuptools, etc...), so covering all cases is difficult. From my experience, creating a new command makes the thing more robust against monkey patching (don't expect too much, though). David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
